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TIL Richard Garfield, creator of Magic The Gathering, is the Great-Great Grandson of 20th U.S President James A. Garfield

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8eXrG TIL The island of Key West, Florida declared independence from the US in 1982 to protest a border patrol checkpoint on their only exit road. Today they still have their own anthem, flag, and passports.
pY5XG TIL of the Wildrake diving bell accident where two saturation divers became trapped in the bell at 522ft (159m) when both the lift & umbilical, carry power & hot water, became detached. Before rescue could get to them, they died of hypothermia.
4YM5 TIL of a Malawian teenager who taught himself how to build a windmill out of junk and bring power to his village. He then went on to build a second, larger windmill to power irrigation pumps. He did this all from books he read in the library.
GAnjE TIL Rifleman Khan was a German Shepherd dog awarded the Dickin medal in WW2 for saving his handler from drowning after their landing craft was sunk by artillery fire
L4ed TIL that in the mid-1950s, the US government secretly tested chemical weapons on the citizens of St Louis.